Brennan, Strzok, Page Subpoenaed in Russiagate Probe

Former CIA Director John Brennan, ex-Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and former FBI officials Peter Strzok and Lisa Page were among more than two dozen people subpoenaed Friday as part of a Justice Department investigation into the 2016 Trump-Russia collusion probe.

A total of 30 federal grand jury subpoenas were issued related to the investigation into the Obama-era “Russigate” probe, a source told The Post.

The people targeted are seen as “part of the conspiracy” that peddled claims President Trump’s campaign colluded with the Russian government ahead of the 2016 election, the source said.

US Attorney Jason Reding Quiñones is supervising the probe out of the Southern District of Florida, where the grand jury is, according to Fox News, which first reported on the subpoenas.

The FBI launched a criminal investigation into Brennan in July, after CIA Director John Ratcliffe released a “lessons-learned review” of the Obama administration’s spy agencies’ assessment that Russia meddled in the 2016 presidential election to help Trump.

The report found that Brennan, Clapper and former FBI Director James Comey were “excessively involved” in drafting an assessment of the Trump-Russia allegations in a “chaotic,” “atypical” and “markedly unconventional” process, and were rushed to complete it.

“This was Obama, Comey, Clapper and Brennan deciding ‘We’re going to screw Trump,’” Ratcliffe told The Post in July.

Brennan has been hit with at least three criminal referrals related to his actions in the wake of Trump’s 2016 election victory.

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard released declassified emails in August showing Clapper was adamant about “stickin’ to” the narrative that Russia interfered in the 2016 election to help Trump, despite concerns raised by a top intelligence official.

Clapper described the Obama administration’s effort to revamp an intelligence community (IC) assessment on “Russia Election Meddling” – which initially determined that “Russian and criminal actors did not impact recent US election” – as a “team sport,” and one that may require the IC to “compromise” its standards.

“We may have to compromise on our ‘normal’ modalities, since we must do this on such a compressed schedule,” Clapper wrote in an email to former National Security Agency Director Mike Rogers, insisting that “more time is not negotiable.”

Clapper told CNN’s Kaitlan Collins in July that he had “lawyered up” in response to the Trump administration’s scrutiny of the Obama-era probe.

Strzok, in July 2016, opened the FBI’s initial Trump-Russia investigation, code-named “Crossfire Hurricane.”

Strzok and Page, who had both been a part of former special counsel Robert Mueller’s team and were engaged in a love affair at the time, were revealed in 2017 to have exchanged hundreds of text messages mocking Trump.

The scandal became central to Trump’s belief that there was bias in the FBI investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.